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Says Pollack, "I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth but I don't want to believe it is..." Like Redford, who built his own resort and personal retreat in the same Wasatch range where Jeremiah Johnson was filmed. Pollack has a vacation "cabin" with running water, heat, and a dishwater...
...government has been doing all it can to turn Sun Moon Lake into an international resort. They are finishing a $10 million Buddhist temple and plan a new highway to encircle the lake. There are already several minor temples around the lake. By climbing 400 steps up a mountainside, and 200 more inside one pagoda, one can get a view of the entire area. It is almost as breathtaking as the climb...
...MOON LAKE is the most beautiful resort on Taiwan. It is two and one half hours by train from Taipei to Laichung, and then another 90 minutes by bus past the farmers and water buffalo, past the hilly country, with their terraced scars of rice paddies and graves, and into the mountains, to the reservoir that was created by joining two lakes...
...private detectives hired either by corporation personnel managers or by parents who suspect that their offspring's fiance may be of buraku-min origin. Many outcasts, while passing at work in the city, still prefer to live in the reassuringly familiar surroundings of their special hamlets; they must resort to ruses like getting off the bus a stop or two early so that fellow passengers who are not outcasts will not see them entering a buraku. Their psychological suffering can be intense. Said one youth: "Once a group of high school friends began discussing outcasts without realizing...
...haven't, their revolt will prove short-lived, Daniel has shaped a new kind of historical inquiry-an honest kind. He uses both Freudian psychology and Marxian sociology, but they don't contradict each other; because he understands his parents strength and failures on both levels, he doesn't resort to violence to prove his commitment, and he's not convinced that the heritage of industrial uprisings must be followed in order to best attack capitalist societies. (At one point, an Above Hoffmann-type radical says that the media are what must be invaded in order to influence the nation...